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    	<p>It is VERY hard to get any real idea of the size of the Linux community.</p> 
    	<p>In a sense, it is because we want it that way: we do NOT want anything like centralized control, and that means that we don't want anyone to say authoritatively how many people we are, either.</p> 
    	<p>The only number we can be sure of is "many".</p> 
    	<p>The lower limit is something like <A HREF="<?php echo $lico['baseurl']; ?>/">what is counted</A> in the Linux Counter, but even this is not certain; people may have stopped using Linux after registering, or may be registered under 2 different emails.</p> 
    	<p>The Linux Counter also has several builtin drawbacks:</p> 
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        <LI> Only people who run across mention of it on Linux enthusiast web pages are likely to hear about it, although several important Linux documents also mention it </li>
        <LI> Only people with E-mail or Web access can register with it </li>
        <LI> Accounts of people who forget to re-visit the website <A HREF="<?php echo $lico['baseurl']; ?>/deletion.html">are deleted</A> after two years.</li> 
        <LI> And most importantly: Only people who *care* to be registered can be counted.  </li>
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      <p>This all makes it hard to make any guess about the number of linux users world wide.</p>
      <p>But there are several known numbers we can play with. These numbers were researched and collected together from many different websites:</p>
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        <LI> In this second, we have <?php echo number_format($world_population); ?> peoples on earth. (See for example: <a href="http://www.worldometers.info/">http://www.worldometers.info/</a>)</li>
        <LI> Actually we have a statistical number of <?php echo number_format($world_internet_users); ?> internet users worldwide. (See for example: <a href="http://www.worldometers.info/">http://www.worldometers.info/</a>)</li>
        <LI> The average of linux users of all internet users seems to be at about <?php echo $lico['average_linux_users_in_percent']; ?> %. (Measured from the web statistics of many great pages)</li> 
        <LI> Bringing this all together gives us a very conservative guess of linux users that have access to the internet (should be at least 99% of all linux users). </li>
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